This assignment is aimed at continuing to help you develop your final research essay for this course. It will help you continue to develop the research and critical reading skills that we began working on in the documents based analysis

This assignment is aimed at continuing to help you develop your final research essay for this course. It will help you continue to develop the research and critical reading skills that we began working on in the documents based analysis in Module 2, and will add a different set of historical materials to the documents and essays you chose for the first assignment. Here’s what you should do:

Read chapters 3-4 of Rampolla’s Pocket Guide to Writing in History. After you have done so:

Revisit the argument and historical questions you raised in your M2 Written Assignment, and consider what additional materials might be worth including to deepen and strengthen your initial argument.

The Research Topic statement and the Research Essay Abstract that you’ve prepared also will be helpful sources in this process.

Go to the Empire State College’s online library, and find 2-3 scholarly articles that relate to the material you covered in your first written assignment.

These articles should be articles that have been peer reviewed, and they should be available through the library in full-text format.

Please consult the guidelines on how to search the library, select an appropriate database, and access appropriate articlesopens in a new window.

Read the articles you select carefully, using not only the strategies that Rampolla outlines in chapter 2 but also the tips for careful reading that she offers on reading actively and thinking like a historian in chapters 3-4.

Using the articles you have found as well as the documents/essays you analyzed in the Module 1 assignment, prepare an essay of 1,000 to 1,200 words that presents a coherent historical argument with a well-defined thesis, introduction, body, and conclusion.

You may draw on your previous assignment in preparing this essay, but please do not simply cut and paste the text into a new document.

Rather, synthesize the findings of your library research with the findings based on your initial documents.

The essay ideally should make use of all 4-6 historical resources you have consulted so far.

Evaluation Criteria

Before submitting an assignment for this course please read the SUNY Empire State College statement on Academic Integrityopens in a new window. Please use the Chicago Style for citations, and take care to ensure that the citations are completed properly. In addition, please use Rampolla’s A Pocket Guide to Writing in History to help ensure that your work is of historical quality.

For assistance in completing your assignment utilize the resources available to you in the Research Assignment Guidelines page of the Course Information documents.